| | 96 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (b. 51) |
| | 307 - Flavius Valerius Severus, deposed Roman Emperor (murder) |
| | 1087 - Pope Victor III |
| | 1100 - Bernold of Constance, German chronicler |
| | 1345 - John IV, Duke of Brittany (b. 1295) |
| | 1380 - King Charles V of France (b. 1338) |
| | 1394 - Avignon Pope Clement VII (b. 1342) |
| | 1406 - Cyprian, Metropolitan of Moscow |
| | 1589 - Michael Baius, Flemish theologian (b. 1513) |
| | 1672 - Anne Bradstreet, American colonial poet |
| | 1701 - James II of England and VII of Scotland (b. 1633) |
| | 1736 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist (b. 1686) |
| | 1775 - Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst, English privy councillor (b. 1684) |
| | 1803 - Nicolas Baudin, French explorer (b. 1754) |
| | 1824 - King Louis XVIII of France (b. 1755) |
| | 1829 - Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general and statesman (b. 1771) |
| | 1864 - John Hanning Speke, English explorer (b. 1827) |
| | 1865 - Christian Julius De Meza, Danish general (b. 1792) |
| | 1911 - Edward Whymper, English mountain climber (b. 1840) |
| | 1925 - Alexander Alexandrovich Friedman, Russian physicist (b. 1888) |
| | 1932 - Ronald Ross, English physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1857) |
| | 1933 - George Gore, baseball player (b. 1857) |
| | 1944 - Gustav Bauer, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1870) |
| | 1945 - John McCormack, Irish tenor (b. 1884) |
| | 1950 - Pedro de Cordoba, American actor (b. 1881) |
| | 1965 - Ahn Eak-tai, a Korean musician, composer, and conductor (b. 1906) |
| | 1973 - Victor Jara, Chilean folk singer and activist (murdered) |
| | 1975 - Irene Hayes, Ziegfeld girl and businesswoman (b.1896) |
| | 1977 - Marc Bolan, English musician (b. 1947) |
| | 1977 - Maria Callas, American-born soprano (b. 1923) |
| | 1980 - Jean Piaget, Swiss psychologist (b. 1896) |
| | 1992 - Millicent Fenwick, American politician and writer (b. 1910) |
| | 1993 - Rok Petrovic, Slovenian skier (b. 1966) |
| | 1996 - McGeorge Bundy, U.S. National Security Advisor (b. 1919) |
| | 2000 - Georgiy Gongadze, Ukrainian journalist (b. 1969) |
| | 2001 - Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (b. 1918) |
| | 2002 - James Gregory, American actor (b. 1911) |
| | 2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951) |
| | 2003 - Sheb Wooley, singer and actor (b. 1921) |
| | 2006 - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode. (b. 1955) |